I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding.

I can do anything I want, I'm eccentric!

I used to desire many, many things, but now I have just one desire, and that's to get rid of all my other desires.

Your Mother was A Hamster and you Father Smelled of elder berries.

When you've only got few days of rehearsal before you're in the studio, it's wonderful to start off with people that you have good, friendly, tolerable relationships to start with, for the simple reason that you don't have to spend 24 hours figuring out how sensitive they are, and can you give them a line reading, or how do you have to give them direction.

Bureaucrats shouldn't be in charge of comedy.

What have the Romans ever done for us?